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After reading Jim Kimmel's letter below, I am reminded that Ann Hanning, Executive Director of ORTA, sat in the March CORE meeting while discussion was going on about possibly distributing Dennis Leone's STRS Report of March 2007, which was to have been published in the ORTA Spring Quarterly. She never said one word to object to the issue of distributing the report ahead of publication.

If there is a rule prohibiting such distribution before ORTA would accept a piece for publication, why didn't she say so? And why was Dr. Leone never TOLD about it? Thanks to ORTA's little rule (which I've never seen), many thousands of STRS retirees may never see the report, and may miss ever receiving critical information that could impact their very lives. Thanks, ORTA -- you really DO have your members' best interests at heart, don't you? By the way, we missed Ann at the April CORE meeting, though she did attend the STRS Board meeting that day.

Kathie Bracy
April 22, 2007